Autotrail Media pack.

[robnchris]

Like most of the Autotrail owners over the last 3 years we have had major issues with the Media Pack Cab Radio unit, currently on our third though it doesn`t upload the phone contacts making it impossible to make a hands free call, a rather important function they forgot to tell us that this unit didn`t have.
Autotrails answer is that it was never designed to have that facility, it`s actually took them 18mths to make that statement, what a laugh or perhaps it would be if I hadn`t paid £999.00 for it especially as we live in a country where it is illegal to use a hand held phone whilst driving.

We have now asked for a refund and they can have the unit back.

 

[Chris]

Was the £999 just for the hands free facility?

 

[ABZSteve]

Is the new system on the 2015 models hands free?

 

[K9Brian]

I find the media pack rubbish - don't use it as gave up on it

 

[Jaws]

As far as I am concerned the media package is a reet pain in the nethers
It caused me a shed load of grief to start with and I soon bypassed/replaced most of it !

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[mojo]

We are on our second replacement,independant fitter said it is a very cheap item

 

[AuldCodger]

I know nothing of the Media Pack but it certainly sounds a poor state of affairs to lay out so much cash on a system that just doesn't do the job.
Not much help but perhaps for others we use the hands free facility on our TomTom camper sat nav and it works extremely well.

 

[robnchris]

Was the £999 just for the hands free facility?

No the media pack as a whole cost £999 as it is all a combined unit, the model fitted in our apache doesn`t have the dvd capability, the bluetooth facility is the big let down, not working at all on our first unit.
It just seems to me that Autotrail bought these units fitted them and didn`t bother to test them they failed so much that they now don`t fit them.

 

[Jaws]

The 'media pack' in our Se is just a load of different bits cobbled together on a board, that then feed a Kenwood stereo unit in the dash that plays DVD's
Straight away it caused grief with the reversing camera and contacting Autotrail about where it was cabled to and from brought forth little help ( as in where they had run the cables )
After that we had various other issues so although it is still in place it is really only used as a multiple switch nowadays

 

[MitchandJenny]

Our head unit had to be sent away for repair, but since its return it has been ok..
I mentioned to our dealer that I had heard it was a "cheapo" unit, but he checked up and said it cost the best part of 600 squid !! I still suspect it is more like the 250 mark..
But, as long as ours works, we will keep shtumm !!

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[Wildman]

little niggles that cost loads of dosh for something that can be retrofitted for a fraction of the cost and work, when will they learn.

 

[robnchris]

Our head unit had to be sent away for repair, but since its return it has been ok..
I mentioned to our dealer that I had heard it was a "cheapo" unit, but he checked up and said it cost the best part of 600 squid !! I still suspect it is more like the 250 mark..
But, as long as ours works, we will keep shtumm !!

Ahh but you can`t make a call from it, so what good is the Bluetooth phone facility in a country were it`s illegal to use a non hands free phone whilst driving?

 

[MitchandJenny]

Ahh but you can`t make a call from it, so what good is the Bluetooth phone facility in a country were it`s illegal to use a non hands free phone whilst driving?

You can from mine !!

 

[joncris]

Me also

 

[Gellyneck]

Ours has just been returned after repair, well they replaced it with a 13LE (later version of the now deleted model). However, the connections on the back are different so now waiting on a new GPS aerial, adapter plugs, etc.
Only thing I've checked so far is the reversing camera and it does activate much quicker than the previous unit.
We used to be able to receive and make calls from the previous unit using bluetooth but not checked replacement yet.

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